The Magic of Millay

Jerri Dell recently posted this wonderful remembrance of our 2017 Millay Arts and Poetry Festival.

Dell writes, "In September 2017, I was invited to attend Millay Arts and Poetry Festival in Rockland, Maine as a member of an Authors’ panel, where I shared the stage with Holly and Krystyna, as well as Millay biographers Nancy Milford (Savage Beauty) and Daniel Mark Epstein (What Lips My Lips Have Kissed.)

The room was packed.

We were each invited to share our particular take on Millay and read a favorite poem. I chose one of Floyd’s favorites: ‘The Poet and His Book’

“Stranger, pause and look/From the dust of ages/Lift this little book/Turn the tattered pages/Read me, do not let me die/Search the fading letters, finding/Steadfast in the broken binding/All that once was I.”

As the audience applauded, I thought how happy both Floyd and Edna would be that we in that room hadn’t let her die.”

Writers on Millay: Daniel Mark Epstein, Nancy Milford, Jerri Dell, Holly Peppe, & Krystyna Poray Goddu